All homes should have battery storage. This is our belief here at Brimstone Energy. We consider the benefits to this technology to be so profound, we think that batteries will be rolled out nationwide. In the future, having a battery storage device in your home will be as common as having a kettle. So, what are the benefits to battery storage?

Battery Storage doesn’t work in isolation. It works within an ecosystem of technologies, many of which are providing intermittent power. The reality is that Solar and Wind power are intermittent sources of power. And it is only Solar and Wind power that have been successfully developed at scale and at sufficiently low cost to make them viable for national and global roll out. Other technologies that might be more “reliable” such as wave or tidal power have not been commercially rolled out.

So we need ways to store power that is generated by solar and wind for use later. To have a robust and secure power network in which power generation is both intermittent and distributed, we will require multiple ways to store that power. This storage will need a variety of long-term and short-term storage mechanisms. And we will need both large-scale national storage facilities and small-scale local storage facilities.

Your home storage battery is effectively the tip of the spear when it comes to storing power. You are storing power at the point of demand, which lowers the burden on the transmission network. You are storing power that will be sufficient to meet your immediate needs, smoothing out the supply and demand curve. Your battery storage device will help lower the peak demand period – to “flatten the curve” to use a once infamous phrase.

Because of these benefits to the national grid, the help that you are providing to equalise supply and demand, there is economic advantage to doing this. And where there is economic advantage, money follows. So the owner of an asset – a battery storage device – will get paid (or paid in kind).

The battery storage device owner will only ever pay off-peak rates to buy electricity. The differential between the peak and off-peak rate is your saving – somewhere around 20-24 pence per kWh in late 2024.

You can also get paid to discharge electricity to the grid. Rates of up to £4.20 per kWh were achieved in 2023.

Because of these benefits to the supply of reliable power to the user, and the associated financial benefits to the owner, we believe that battery storage will become an increasingly common sight across the UK and throughout the world.

Want to find out more? Check out these case studies of people just like you that took the plunge with Brimstone Energy, and are now reaping the rewards.

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